25 Quotes by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I’m not a good collaborator in general.

Common folk didn’t have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Love is not for the weak, my heart. You must have courage.

Very few editors worry about heresy – their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

I ride horseback – arthritic knees permitting – or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it’s hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

I outline fairly extensively because I’m usually dealing with real events. I don’t need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.

If they aren’t real enough to surprise me, then they aren’t real enough to go on the page.